<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50286]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Driving a fire truck is always a thrill. Is it better than sex? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Driving a fire truck is always a thrill. Is it better than sex? No!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2502]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2172]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045]]></link><description><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52353]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. Such persons sooner or later turn their backs on an individual existence and strive to acquire a sense of worth and a purpose by an identification with a holy cause, a leader, or a movement. The faith and pride they derive from such an identification serve them as substitutes for the unattainable self-confidence and self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item></channel></rss>